Charles E. Guillaume
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Charles E. Guillaume
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Charles E. Guillaume
• Born on February 15, 1861
• Lived in Fleurier, Switzerland
• married Mlle Taufflieb in 1888.
• died on May 13, 1938
Education• early education in Neuchâtel
• year as officer in the Swiss artillery
• doctor's degree at Zurich Polytechnic
Working in the Bureau
• Assistant, International Bureau of Weights and Measures,1883
• Associate Director in 1902
• 1915-1936, was Director of the Bureau
• remained Honorary Director 1936-death
Studies• mechanics and ballistics
• thermometry
• Properties of iron
Discoveries
• discovery of invar
• discovery of elinvar
• detailed calibration of thermometers
Accomplishments • appointed Grand
Officer of the Legion of Honor
• Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Geneva, Neuchatel, Paris
• President of the Société Française de Physique
Nobel Prize
• Recognized Inver's potential as soon as announced
• Important advancement of science and technology was obvious
• earned Guillaume that year's Nobel Prize in Physics
Books About his Work
• Studies on Thermometry, 1886,
• Treatise on Thermometry, 1889,
• Units and Standards, 1894
• X-Rays, 1896,
Books about his work cont.• investigations on Nickel
and its Alloys, 1898, • The Life of Matter, 1899,• Metrical Convention and
the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 1902,
• Applications of Nickel-Steels, 1904,
Books about his work cont.
• States of Matter, 1907,
• Recent progress in the Metric System, 1907, 1913.
• Introduction to Mechanics
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